You where all so interested in the saying here is a few more you might know?
In the early 1400 people would sell pigs and would put them in a bag for ease of carrying home a bit like the supermarket would (do you need a hand with your packing)
When the people would get home and open their bag they would find the unscrupulous character had placed a large cat in the bag you had paid for hence THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG.
The saying there is not enough room to swing a cat in
When people where flogged on the old shipping boat in the early days they would use (you got it) cat o nine tails.
When there was not enough room to do it the saying came about NOT ENOUGH ROOM TO SWING A CAT IN
DON’T YOU GET MY BACK UP comes from a cat or dog, whose fur sticks up when annoyed.
YOU’RE THE APPLE OF MY EYE comes from psalm 17:8 when asking god to keep me the apple of you eye.
Bite the bullet you should all know this one in the old battles no one got sensitized to have an operation they where given a bullet to put between their teeth. So forget ya meds mates, lets all ask for bullets at the next rumi appointment avasi their jim lad.
BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON IN YOUR MOUTH.
if you where invited to be a godfather in the old days it was cusomery to give the child as a present a silver spoon only people who could afford this did it of course
Your living In Cloud Cuckoo Land
in 450 bc the greeks did a play where the city they where making in the play was called cloud cuckoo
YOUR PLAYING FAST AND LOOSE
This came from the battle fields of England in that to stop the archers from shooting arrows you shouted FAST and if you wanted them to shoot arrows you shouted LOOSE hence the above saying
YOUR GOING TO EAT HUMBLE PIE
This expressioin came from if a deer was killed the rich would eat the venicen and the poor would eat the UMBLE which was the intestines of the deer made into a pie
MONEY FOR OLD ROPE
All those years ago and still today some ropes are still made of hemp
When a rope would wear out it could be picked apart and sold on for caulking in old wooden boat decks now then the gap in the deck was called a devil so if you packed your rope in the gaps and had no hot tar to seal it (YOU HAD THE DEVIL TO PAY)
HERE IS A FEW OLD LANCASHIRE SAYINGS MY GRAN USED TO USE
Clean the S HOLE OUT in the 1950 the fire would have a grate underneath to catch the fire sinders the fire was about 2 ft up from the that with the old cooking oven at the side THE S HOLE AS IT WAS CALLED was the part where the sinders where caught in at the bottom of the fire.
HE WILL PROBABLY BE JUST COMING DOWN THE TOP sleck THE TOP SLECK AS IT WAS SCALLED WAS THE TOP OF THE ROAD LEADING TO THE HOUSE. So you could use it for the top of your road or ave (TOP SLECK)
ALWAYS LOOK AFTER YA FEET LAD AND YA FEET WILL LOOK AFTER THEE !!
what a true saying I here you say because all the stresses come through the striking of the ball of the foot on the floor and through the knee to the hip then to the back and the neck all these joints have cartilage which cushion the joint they are like a sponge water disperses when pressure is applied by the force of the foot striking the ground then re absorbs the water for the next strike of the other foot (hence bone on bone doesn’t work (does it) ya can say that again if only I had listened to this one and always got the correct shoe their will be hell to pay for the young ladies of today with them heels.
MIDIN MEN ARE HERE ah for all of you with swanky toilet people. in the old days midins as they where call was a toilet down the yard with a hole to place your bum in that collected all the stuff that went down.
The midin was cleaned out every month by THE MIDIN MEN but to stop it from smelling you had a powder stuff to put on it (and ya tell the kids of today and they don’t understand.
TOILET PAPER you where lucky there was 4 off us living in a house and we used to have to get up before we had gone to bed. (old newspapers where cut up and used on a string.)
SAYING YA DAD WOULD SAY i will make you laugh on the other side of your face lad (eh)
Dont look at me in that tone of voice lad (eh)
what have i told you about peeing in our grid (do it in next doors (but its the same drain dad) dont you talk to me like that lad or i will put my hand on your face. (eh will it hurt)
LOL
Your homework CLASS 5C IS
HES NOT GOT A LEG TO STAND ON.
ESA AND COURT. (CLAPPED OUT AT 45)
